Symphony No. 4

Album by Gustav Mahler & Česká filharmonie & Václav Neumann

Symphony No. 4 is the fourth symphony by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, completed in 1900. Scored for a relatively lighter orchestra than his preceding symphonies and concluding with a soprano solo that sets a child's vision of heaven, the work blends late-Romantic orchestral colour, folk-influenced melodies and moments of simplicity and irony, and occupies a transitional place in Mahler's output between his earlier expansive works and his later, more austere symphonies.